Juyoung Lee

Juyoung Lee is a historian of transnational East Asia, specializing in modern Korea and Taiwan, with a research focus on science and technology studies, history of development, labor history, and infrastructure studies.

Juyoung is currently working on her first book manuscript, tentatively titled Networking for Development: Social Relationships and Technical Cooperation in Cold War East Asia. This work highlights the role of often invisible social and emotional labor conducted by non-state actors in bureaucratic decision-making. It examines how these mundane interactions guided bureaucratic decisions and shaped large infrastructure development cooperation projects in East Asia. Using personal letters, diaries, correspondence, and memoirs, she reveals the political and diplomatic interconnections behind the infrastructure projects of Cold War Korea and Taiwan—including their ties to the U.S. and Japan—visible only through investigating subtle networks not documented in official records.

Juyoung received her Ph.D. in History of Science and Technology from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to her Ph.D. studies, she worked as a researcher at the Science and Technology Policy Institute, a South Korean government-funded think tank.